Indigenous people of this country are mourning all across the country today while lies continue be told in our school system that downplay the vile mistreatment of the original proprietors of this land. There are any different origin stories of how Thanksgiving came into being. One of them is the meal that the pilgrims were indulging in was not in celebration of their newfound kinship, it was in celebration of a strike against the native people resulting in the deaths of 700 people from the Pequot tribe after a man was found dead in his boat. It was in retaliation for his death because the Pilgrims thought that tribe was behind it. So they crept into their land and burned their houses down while they were asleep. Another story is that when the settlers first arrived they did have a meal and after hearing gunshots the Massasoit people came to check it out. They were invited to eat with them but there wasn’t enough food, so the Massasoit sent out hunters and they returned with 5 deer, but this was in March. While it might be nice to cling onto that latter account to attribute this holiday to something less iniquitous, it’s in this country’s best interest to, how do I put this mildly, pull its head out of its rear.